Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Non-fiction book review - The Book of Massively Epic Engineering Disasters

The Book of Massively Epic Engineering Disasters by Sean Connolly

Each section of this book follows a pretty simple formula: introduce the events of the disaster, give history of the structure/area, explore what caused the failure and how it could have been prevented, one or two experiments that illustrate the principles at work. In this case, repetition is a strength. Its pleasantly predictable. And while many of the disasters in this book were of passing familiarity, a few were brand new to me.

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